Updated benchmark

[Larirawiel]

what did the developers promise? this picture is really something that I would be happy about. Just hi res with shaders and not a single modified texture. Oh, dreams. :3

The textures and the geometry are updated in this picture, sorry.



Cheers

[Fukuro]

Looks less angry, but I like the changes overall. Also Viera nose is less rabbit like.

[Iakobos]

Endwalker



Dawntrail

My character's in-game hairstyle was not available, so I had to select the next best thing. The updated graphics were/are truly remarkable, which makes me all the more excited for Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail.

[PaleYonder]

Posting to say I'm really happy with the changes to F Au Ra Face 3. I'm just setting up a character to be my new main for the new adventure and was undecided what I wanted, and shopped around the benchmarks to decide based on the new versions.

I hadn't played Au Ra in a long time, something never quite clicked or was off for me, but in the new benchmark, I randomly thought, hey let's try them out, see what they look like now. And totally fell in love with the face 3/eyes 3 model. It's got such a cool new vibe, and I love the eyebags, the more natural limbal rings, the mouth too. It's more lifelike, but at the same time it's got a really unique anime stylisation, and comes together so well. So I changed to this model in-game already to get used to everything, and now I can't wait for the update to drop and for the look to turn like that.

I don't have a comparison screenshot ready cause I mostly play on console, but here's the new one.

[faiarrow]

Well.
No passing mention at all about further plans or even just a confirmation of 'we're still looking into feedback to implement' in the PLL or anything to give us hope. Could some things be OK on launch? Possibly, but I highly doubt it. All my trust with the development team is gone. Especially for roegadyn.

I'm heartbroken.

[Len_]

It really seems like they just left this huge undertaking til the last minute really believing if they messed up the characters not many people would care and if they did care they'd get over it in a month so it wouldn't matter. Bizarre.

[azaleai]

Gonna be lovely to go through the story looking like this

[LlymlaenGreene]

Okay, so it's yours again, forever * satisfied* Llymlaen and this is another attempt to make a review about what has changed and what is wrong with the hyur 1 face that my character uses. After spending a solid amount of time comparing faces, that's what I got. In my opinion, there are a lot of changes and they radically change my feeling of the character * your opinion may not coincide with mine, we are all different and everyone has their own view of things *.

AAnd yes, I will take and listen to the opinion of wise people and try to tell in words what has changed* but these are more abstract and subjective things*. And I'm sorry in advance if I'm being impolite again at some points. I have to say everything I think.
Let's start naturally with the most important thing: the mouth.


There are so many changes here that it's easier to say what hasn't changed. Well, it hasn't changed that it's still a mouth, hahaha. A completely different form. When I chose my mouth, I wanted to see a contented, confident young girl, one might even say smug, but now she is a sad, even scared teenager. The photo will be next. And this change completely contradicts the very concept that the developers introduced us to, saying that they would not change the impressions of our characters. I'm sorry, but I still feel cheated, because right now we have something that is far from your promises. * I still don't understand why almost every element should be changed so dramatically*.
1. The shape of the lips itself. Previously, these were very interesting and cute lips with a bow with twisted shapes, and an interesting, intricate lip line, and a slightly smug smile that sets the tone of the character, but now we have a boring, ordinary shape. A simple, almost straight lip line that bends down strangely at the tips of the lips, creating a sad look. That is, there were very unique individual lips, and now it's just sterile, generic lips * my opinion*. You tried so hard * to leave us the same impressions that in a burst of creative work you made completely different lips. I would like to add them as a new lip type.
2. The corners of the lips are lowered and go straight into the dimples of the lips, which were not there before
3. The color has changed accordingly. I personally prefer the previous one. Dear Schwarzwaelder has already painted everything perfectly for you about colors at Jp forums
4. The lower lip looks bigger and because of this, the lip line is higher.
5. On the new lips, there is a thing under the lips that did not exist before. I prefer without this stuff.
6. The lips are now further away from the nose, which in turn also affects the appearance. Yes, by 3 to 5 pixels, but it is.
To sum up, a completely new kind of lips.

[LlymlaenGreene]

Then the ears. I won't pay much attention, in general they look better, have a clearer texture, but there are complaints.


1. The ears have become more protruding, farther from the head. In simple words, she has become more lop-eared.
2. The earlobe on the old ears was more voluminous and interesting. On the new ears, it's a simple line.



Next, we move on to the nose


It's actually very interesting here. It used to seem to me that more pixels meant more rounded smooth shapes, but in my case we get exactly the opposite.
1. The nose has become more square. The shadows are square and overall, again, the feeling of a new nose. Previously, it was a cute nose that stood out noticeably, but now it is a nose of a different shape, which has a noticeably straight bridge of the nose, which also does not play in favor of the same impressions, and gives the impression of a more angular, aristocratic nose.
2. The nostrils on the new nose are now further apart, making the tip of the nose larger and also, in combination with the new light, makes the tip more square.
3. There is now a dark spot on the tip of the nose that just looks ugly and out of place.



Next on the list, we have our charming eyes, yes.



Again, the same claims. The shape has been changed for no apparent reason * can you at least tell me why you are radically changing every element?*. I do not know, before the look was more languid, mysterious, flirtatious. Now it looks like a gaze looking into the void. To nowhere.
1. Like the lips, the new shape of the eyes * I'm not surprised anymore*.
2. The tips of the old eyes look up, but the tips of the new eyes now also look slightly down.
3. The new eyes have become simpler! Look at the photos, they used to be more complex, with a lot of details, but now they have lost many features. I thought that with the development of graphics technology, things should become more detailed, and not the other way around.
4. Bags appeared under the eyes, which makes an energetic and lively girl, a tired, sleepy office worker.
5. The pupil has become larger. Again, a deliberate artistic interpretation of the current look.
6. The beginning of the eye at the bridge of the nose has become less pronounced and less detailed, yes, the very corner of the triangle. Too many changes for the eye, don't you think?
7. There is less mascara. The eyes look lighter and simpler.
8. There is no eye shadow over the eyes, because of this, the eye looks different. The look changes from playful to indifferent. And if you look closely, due to the lack of shadow, a strip of pixels has appeared and the eye looks undersized



Eyebrows.


1. They changed the shape, there used to be a more pronounced arch at the tips of the eyebrows.
2. Eyebrows have become lighter.
3. The eyebrows have become straighter and the hairs are the same length. There was also a clear skew in the length of the eyelashes. The eyebrows are also less thick.



The general appearance of the character. A smug, mysterious girl with a gorgeous smile turned into a scared, indifferent tired, sad teenage girl. The facial features in the present form have become more refined. Here's the deal
In my opinion, who has played thousands of hours on this character alone, this is a huge difference. It looks more like aura, to be honest. I'm trying to convey to the developers that if you change the details of the puzzle picture * nose, mouth, eyes, change their shapes as you please*, we will not be able to assemble the same character that was before.

[LlymlaenGreene]

Well, that's my opinion. And this applies only to one character of the same race, and to be honest, I am not happy that the developers provided me. And imagine how much they still need to fix. The game is about to be released, and absolutely all the parts that can be changed on my character have been changed. This is unthinkable. You will say, because this is a graphic change and they need to be changed. I agree. But they must be changed according to the original. I have provided all the evidence above that the developers literally draw new noses, eyes, ears, me everything they can, simplifying the details and depriving the characters of individuality. In general, this hyur seems to me more like aura lol. * is it all the fault of the standardization of all races, as they said at fanfest? I don't know*.

There are so many flaws and we still don't know what our characters will look like, because they continue to improve our characters.